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Free appraisals are rough estimates only. Paid appraisals are generally a more accurate evaluation of what a domain should sell for.

They are more in depth and done by a professional appraiser who will determine all factors and recent sales.

Initial Valuation Criteria

RegAppraisal believes the TLD (top level domain) of a domain name is very important.

The TLD determines the memorability of the domain, and better TLDs convey a more professional and experienced business. COM, NET, and ORG are currently the most credible and well known TLDs.

The familiarity and credibility of newer TLDs will likely increase with time.

The number of characters in a domain affects the value of that domain. Shorter domain names are more valuable.

The fewer characters a name contains, the easier it is to type and remember.

Your name is a reasonable length (ten to fifteen characters long).

This will probably not affect the value of your domain.

Hyphens generally detract from the value of a domain.

Your name contains no hyphens, which increases the value of your domain.

Digits in a domain name, as in horses4sale.com, decrease the value of a domain.

Your name contains no digits, which increases the value of your domain.

Market Based Appraisal Criteria

The number of words in a domain affects the value of that domain.

Names with fewer words are considered to be more memorable, and therefore more valuable. Your name is one English word. Single word domain names are scarce and extremely valuable.

HOSTNHUB uses major search engines to determine how much content exists on the Internet with your keywords.

The Internet frequency of these words is a good way of determining the current buyers market for individual terms and the level of industry-specific activity.

This element of your appraisal score is very time sensitive, the popularity of a given term may fluctuate often as the market changes and new fields grow.

Your domain contains keywords that produce a fair number of search results.

This increases the value of your domain.

HOSTNHUB uses an index of the search value of your keywords to determine the value of your domain in a sellers and advertising market.

Your domain contains keywords that have a very high search value.

This will significantly increase the value of your domain.

The HOSTNHUB.com search frequency allows us to rate the words we find in your domain against our own proprietary list of searches.

This is a very good indication of whats hot in the industry right now.